yardstick

Example Sentences

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Brent crude, the global yardstick for prices, fell around 13% to $95 a barrel on Wednesday following the cease-fire announcement, still significantly above its roughly $60 level in early January.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The result may not be the yardstick for England.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Judged by that yardstick, the administration has done well.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

By the yardstick of its own goals, the nation’s second-largest school system is likely to fall short by nearly every parameter — taking in sample measures of literacy, math and social emotional learning.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

“We all have this yardstick inside ourselves, but it just isn’t sought enough. Maybe because it is the most difficult yardstick,” she explained in a letter to her boyfriend, Fritz Hartnagel.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti